Justine Frantz has spent $1,483.31 over the past several years buying gifts for her grandchildren from online retailer Amazon.com. But the Lower Macungie resident said she won't give the Seattle company another penny after reading about working conditions in its Lehigh Valley warehouses. "Your company is taking advantage of our weak economy," Frantz said in an email last week to Amazon that she shared with The Morning Call. "You have people who want to work, who want to do a great job and earn their day's pay and you are treating them like they are interchangeable parts of a machine, easily replaced." The online retailer has been responding to such...

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